Quotes About Balance

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

In any relationship, the person who cares the least is the one with the most power.

Hard position when you don't want to be a dictator but you want your own way," Eleanor wrote Hick.

Oil). In addition to placing several drops on the feet, wrists or ankles, one may also choose to apply to the neck on a daily basis to calm the mind and balance "the blues."   Finally, please note, this wonderful and aromatic essential oil tends to be pricier than other oils; however, it is certainly worth it! Clove

Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one – or both. Usually both. – Susan Sontag

Something is neutral only with respect to something else—like an intention or an expectation.

There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves a balancing of these incompatible needs.

nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature—tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.

The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.

What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.

Be still. Be silent. Find the center of yourself.

She was starting to see that there was nothing wrong with sometimes letting the day unfold according to its own rhythm.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children." —Mignon McLaughlin

This job made it possible for you to stay home all day and draw pictures.

Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

brutal honesty has its place, but the occasional white lie does wonders for a fragile heart.

She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

life had taught him long ago that fear and happiness could not coexist.

the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more